Can any of you conservatives/GOPers explain WHY you have consistently been on the wrong side of history, and ALL you have are bullshit revisionist history or attacks on liberal/progressive policies that created America?
Progressives did not exist until T. Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson.
Was Lincoln really our first Progressive?
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . .
corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and
the money power of the country
will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people
until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
-- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864
Kind of sounds like Lincoln was the 1st Champion of Labor!
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When Lincoln gave this speech at the Wisconsin fair, Americans knew him as the rising Republican politician who debated Stephen Douglas. One year later he would be elected president, and two years after that he signed the bill establishing the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Was Lincoln really our first Progressive
Lincoln was elected to office on November 6, 1860, after running on a anti-slavery, pro-equality, and pro-public jobs platform. The platform pledged not to extend slavery, and Lincoln himself called for prompt establishment of a daily mail service and a transcontinental railroad; notably, both “public” programs
On Equality
On the Minimum Wage
On Immigration
On Labor
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
Please Shut It You are NOT the Party of Abe Lincoln Teddy Roosevelt or Dwight D. Eisenhower Anymore - Forward Progressives